AAUP 2016: UPScope (S. Doerr)
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UPScope
A planning grant funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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UPScope expands the network
UPScope is the working title of an AAUP planning grant to develop a platform enabled by natural language full-text search and discovery of high quality, peer-reviewed books published by AAUP member presses.• Creates a network between the texts published by AAUP
member presses• Natural language search facilitates:
• crosses disciplinary silos• results free of bias based on commercial factors (i.e. advertising)
• Links texts into the networks of scholars
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Inspired by AcademyScope
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Raison d’etre: Monograph Discovery
Monograph discovery is not optimal for humanities research
Phrases and key words carry multiple meanings
Ideas across disciplines have different names
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Why did we do this:
Improve discovery, visibility, and usage of AAUP member press books
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Inference Engines: semantic search• An inference engine reads the text of the books and identifies
the concepts and key phrases within the tests
• Maps the books against one another based on those common key phrases/key words, creating idea pathways
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Testing of Inference Engines• 200 files used to test inference engines
• Proved the files & metadata have today will work with these engines
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Governance Structurefor the planning grantTwo Advisory Councils:• Executive Advisory Council• Technical Advisory Council
The two councils split into nine working groups:• Semantic Tech Evaluation• Scholar as customer• Up content analysis• Access models and fulfillment• Identifiers & metadata standards• Reimagine Curation• Aggregator Interfaces• Library as customer• AAUP member communication
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Outreach to the community
• Surveyed AAUP member presses• Libraries• Scholarly Societies• Individual Scholars• Technology Companies• Inference Engine Developers
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Business Modeling
Members of the advisory council created potential business model projections for:
book salesdiscovery service salesopen access hosting feesresearch services to scholars
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Member Content Survey166,000 digital book files exist from 104 reporting AAUP member presses. Most are PDF
Presses publish more than 10,000 new titles a year
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Next Steps• Drafting a Proof of Concept project proposal to submit to the
Mellon Foundation
• Core goals of proof of concept1. Ingest files metadata from presses2. Develop the inference engine (discovery tool)3. Validating scholars will use it
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Questions?
Thank you!